Indesign scripting Community
@Sujatha_Reddy
Adobe's own tech support told me to post a thread here.
When the indesign scripting community was merged with the general indesign community yesterday we lost all ability to find helpful answers. I’m not exaggerating when I say that the indesign scripting community forum is the ONLY reason I was at all able to learn how to write scripts in indd. Adobe’s own documentation, resources and tutorials for scripting are scattered, outdated and lacking. It’s incredibly frustrating. That community had 10+ years of answers to pretty much everything. It’s completely impossible to search for an answer in the general indd page when 90% of the answers, are not scripting related. You have "topics" but you can't even search in them. It's madness.
As an example, If I were an indesign beginner (i’m not) and I search “how to create a text box, and put text in it” I should find an answer like “Drag a text frame out with the type tool and click in it and start typing”
If I was an indd scripting beginner (and I very much am) The answer is closer to:
var myPage = app.activeDocument.layoutWindows[0].activePage;
var bounds = {geometricBounds:[55, 10, 65, 20]};
myTextFrame = createTextFrame(bounds, "Adobe does not care about its users");
function createTextFrame(myTextFrameBounds, myTextFrameContents){
var myFrame = app.activeDocument.layoutWindows[0].activePage.textFrames.add(myTextFrameBounds)
myFrame.contents = myTextFrameContents
}
These two answers are worlds apart.
How are you guys going to fix this?
Also, my first 3 posts didn't show up. Whats up with that?
Also, also, I like how the only way to find the incopy forum is to click through the indesign forum.
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